Blaeberry vs. Blueberry — What's the Difference?

The bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus.

Blueberries are a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plants with blue or purple berries. They are classified in the section Cyanococcus within the genus Vaccinium.

The bilberry.

A small sweet blue-black edible berry which grows in clusters on North American shrubs related to the bilberry.

Erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries

One of the dwarf shrubs that produces blueberries, some kinds being cultivated for their fruit or as ornamentals.

Any of various plants of the genus Vaccinium, having white to reddish, urn-shaped or tubular flowers and edible blue to blue-black berries, especially the highbush blueberry and the lowbush blueberry.

The fruit of any of these plants.

A usually blue-gray spherule that is found in soil and sedimentary rock and is rich in hematite, produced by the weathering of rock or by precipitation from rock by moving groundwater.

(countable) An edible round berry, belonging to the cowberry group (Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus), with flared crowns at the end, that turns blue on ripening.

(countable) The shrub of the above-mentioned berry.

A dark blue colour.

Of a dark blue colour.

To gather or forage for blueberries.

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry.

Any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries

Sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants